Philips has posted a €103 million (81 million) net loss on third quarter earnings just three weeks after announcing that it wants to split off its lighting division. The Dutch giant blamed slowing markets in China and Russia and a ...
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Samsung Electronics will reportedly withdraw from the global LED lighting market due to low-price pressure from China-based makers, while Taiwan-based TSMC Solid State Lighting will reportedly cease operations, according to industry ...
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TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) has extended business operation to EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) services for setting up PV systems and has set up PV systems with total installation capacity of 23.4MWp in Taiwan, ...
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The market for GaN packaged LEDs in automotive applications is forecast to reach the US$1 billion mark in 2014 for the first time, according to IHS. Industry revenues are projected to grow 11% from US$943 million in 2013 to US$1.05 ...
LED bulb prices over the past quarter, with price declines most markedly in the German market for both 40W and 60W equiv. LED bulbs last month.Prices for 60W equiv. LED bulb have dropped more than 40W equiv. LED bulbs in September. Bulb ...
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According to IHS, approximately 880,000 connected LED smart bulbs were shipped globally in 2013. With new lighting products entering the market seemingly every week, sales are forecast to ramp up very quickly in the next few years, with ...
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DOE's Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium (MSSLC) has released the results of a voluntary web-based inventory survey of public street and area lighting across the U.S., conducted during the latter half of 2013 and intended to ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy has released a report on the longer-term performance of an LED lighting system that was installed on the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis in September 2008 and represents one of the country’s oldest ...
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Green Energy Technology (GET), the largest Taiwan-based solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer maker, is reportedly talking about cooperation with crystalline silicon solar cell maker Motech Industries to help the latter manage in-house ...
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Nanoco, a developer and manufacturer of cadmium-free quantum dots and other nanomaterials, has signed a follow-on joint development agreement with Osram for the use of Nanoco quantum dots in general lighting. Nanoco has been working with ...
Crystalline silicon wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) has obtained from Taiwan's Intellectual Property Office a patent for a process to grow polycrystalline silicon ingots, according to the company. SAS filed for the patent ...
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Modern Forms introduces Davos, a modern work of art and sleek LED design. Featuring an ultra-thin profile with automotive gloss finishes, this luminaire balances cutting edge style and substance. Davos is destined to become a recognizable ...
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Demand for LED lighting products for the fourth quarter will be weak as LED lighting vendors took deliveries in the second and third quarters for products to be launched in the fourth, and some will adjust inventories through the end of the ...
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A team from Lighting’s parent company, The Top Right Group, has successfully scaled Kilimanjaro for the Great Ormond Street Hospital children’s charity. The team which included Lighting’s editor, Ben Cronin, reached ...
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The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 has been awarded to three scientists for their invention of blue LEDs. Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura will share prize money of eight million kronor (0.7 million). In the early ...
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